Szanyi Miklós, Author at Sapkajelvény történetek

September 1918

The fall of 1918 brought the collapse of the Central Powers. The completely exhausted Monarchy, as well as Turkey and

IR 87 was a Styrian regiment. Its command and recruitmen area was in Cilli (now Celje, Slovenia), and most of

I recently visited Innsbruck and attended the Kaiserjägermuseum there. The history of the Tyrolean fighters is nicely explained, from the

One of the advanced weapons of the Monarchy was the 30 and a half mortar. Its formidable firepower was already

The Lohner Pfeilflieger got its name from the backward-pointing wings. The first plane was completed in 1912. Soon it was

A model designed by Charles Voisin in 1907. The first flying structure that was produced in large numbers. Between 1907

The Nagyvárad Honvéd IR no.4. was part of the tried and tested 20th Infantry Division. They fought in the Carpathians,

Here again, a better-known badge follows, to which I can attach a stamped correspondence letter and a letter seal. The

Recently, I managed to solve an old puzzle. Not one in fact, but three. The following: What were the so-called

St Lucia was a small town of perhaps thousand people during the Great War located at the confluence of the